What has happened to Food Network and the Cooking Channel?

Colinka · ‎10-15-2011

Where are the shows that actually show how to cook? With the exception of very old Alton Brown shows (Good Eats) there aren't any shows on that actually show how to cook anymore! It's all silly competitions: Cake Wars, Donut Wars, Cooks vs. Cons,Chopped, Worst Cooks in America, etc. Or else they are showing some talking head traveling to various restaurants and gorging on ginormous portions of carnival eats, BBQ, Pizza,etc. I miss watching Ina Garten, Giada, Ree, etc. Has been actresses (Tiffani, Valerie, Hilary,and the rest, are not trained cooks!) And don't get me started on the neverending Guy Fieri shows.

I'm going to block them from my channel selections. (As I did E when it became all Kardashian all the time.) Does anyone know of any channel that still has cooking shows? (Other than PBS.)

Mmsfoxxie · ‎06-19-2010

Sounds like they are doing the same thing that HGTV is doing...,focusing on one area only. HGTV does not do any home decorating or gardening shows any more. Just buying a house or flipping a house. I barely watch it anymore. I long ago gave up on the Food Network, too.

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proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@Colinka wrote:
Where are the shows that actually show how to cook? With the exception of very old Alton Brown shows (Good Eats) there aren't any shows on that actually show how to cook anymore! It's all silly competitions: Cake Wars, Donut Wars, Cooks vs. Cons,Chopped, Worst Cooks in America, etc. Or else they are showing some talking head traveling to various restaurants and gorging on ginormous portions of carnival eats, BBQ, Pizza,etc. I miss watching Ina Garten, Giada, Ree, etc. Has been actresses (Tiffani, Valerie, Hilary,and the rest, are not trained cooks!) And don't get me started on the neverending Guy Fieri shows.
I'm going to block them from my channel selections. (As I did E when it became all Kardashian all the time.) Does anyone know of any channel that still has cooking shows? (Other than PBS.)

@Colinka. Ina,Giada,Ree,etc are usually on in the morning during the week and weekends. After 12, it is all the competition stuff on the Food Network. I watch the Create channel. They have a lot of good cooking shows. Also my PBS channels on the weekends have cooking.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

About the only time I watch is on weekend mornings, and the occasional afternoon. That is when the cooking shows are on. I just received the Food Network magazine for this month, and it is great. I want to make everything, it is the Italian issue. If you don't subscribe it is worth picking up.🍝🍝

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Just Bling · ‎03-10-2010

ITA You have go online to their website for video's to the recipes.

What I thought was interesting too, I get a recipe everday in my inbox from the Food Network, today was Chicken Tetrazzini with 5 STAR reviews.

I was ready to print and thought, I won't make so much but there's a lot of steps involved, let's see what everyone else thought about it. At first I thought with 5 star reviews and so many I didn't need to read BUT, I saw two star, three star, people said no flavor, is the recipe right? etc. How can this average out to a 5 star review, it can't with the mixed in low ratings.

Saved the ink printing.

Colinka · ‎10-15-2011

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't watch TV in the morning, but used to enjoy the cooking shows in the early afternoon. I don't have access to the Create channel.Guess I'll just have to record the morning shows to watch later.

I also agree about HGTV--I am so tired of nothing but flips and house hunters.

IlliniGirl88 · ‎06-20-2010

@Colinka wrote:
Where are the shows that actually show how to cook? With the exception of very old Alton Brown shows (Good Eats) there aren't any shows on that actually show how to cook anymore! It's all silly competitions: Cake Wars, Donut Wars, Cooks vs. Cons,Chopped, Worst Cooks in America, etc. Or else they are showing some talking head traveling to various restaurants and gorging on ginormous portions of carnival eats, BBQ, Pizza,etc. I miss watching Ina Garten, Giada, Ree, etc. Has been actresses (Tiffani, Valerie, Hilary,and the rest, are not trained cooks!) And don't get me started on the neverending Guy Fieri shows.
I'm going to block them from my channel selections. (As I did E when it became all Kardashian all the time.) Does anyone know of any channel that still has cooking shows? (Other than PBS.)

@Colinka - I totally agree. I used to love watching Food Network and they've sold out to all the silly reality throw down competitions, because drama is involved. I guess they think drama = high ratings. I don't want to watch people acting foolish attempting to bake cupcakes, I want some new, useful recipes for dinner. I used to love watching Ina and PW in the afternoons, but they're not on a regular schedule anymore. I did catch them this past Saturday, but not sure if it was for Valentine's Day specials.

Alton Brown's old Good Eats shows are on late at night, but not on Food Network. I don't know what channel it is though; sorry!

sunshine 919 · ‎12-22-2013

@Colinka wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't watch TV in the morning, but used to enjoy the cooking shows in the early afternoon. I don't have access to the Create channel.Guess I'll just have to record the morning shows to watch later.
I also agree about HGTV--I am so tired of nothing but flips and house hunters.

I really use to enjoy the cooking shows in the evenings. I watched almost all of them. Sandra Lee was my favorite. But I enjoyed all of them. They all had their different styles. I do know that create has some good shows. I think Tiffany from 90210 has a show and it is pretty good.

Yahooey · ‎07-09-2010

I think they air new cooking shows on Saturday mornings since my DVR is set to record new episodes only of Ina and a select few. Unforunately she doesn't do many new shows now. They do run repeats on weekday mornings. Then it is the never ending Guy channel as E as become the Kardashian channel.

Food channels not about cooking

MTV not about music videos

TLC not learning anything except bad behavior

libbyannE · ‎10-27-2010

It's happened to one show or network after another. The industry obviously thinks that all those frankly silly shows are better than their previous versions. Someone must be watching. Bit by bit, I just watch less and less TV. I didn't watch a lot anyway.

Example: I used to watch pawn stars because it was interesting to see the items that were brought in, learn their history, and hear about their values. Then The show started emphasizing the people working in the store, whom I couldn't stand, so I simply tuned out and have never watched again. That was probably two or three years ago. I never watch the Food Network now. I don't watch HGTV . I still love American pickers on history, but that's a rare exception. I have to go onto my iPad and find documentaries and other interesting shows because my brain can't take the, excuse me, ****** the regular TV is serving up these days.